[6], 33, [1], 27 (i.e.26), [27], LXI [i.e. LIX], [2] leaves : 30 cm (fol.)

Imprint from colophons on leaves E9 verso and c10 recto: 1) Venetiis Impressum per probum virum Paganinum de paganinis / de Briscia ... Anno Remdemptionis [sic] nostre. M·D. IX· K[a]len[das]· Iunii. Leonardo Lauretano. Ve[netiae]. Rem. Pu[blicam]. Gubernante Pontificatus . Iulii. ii. Anno. vi.; 2) Venetiis impressum per probum virum Paganinum de Paganinis de Brixia ... Anno Redemptionis nostre. M.D. VIIII. K[a]len[das]. Iunii. Leonardo Lauretano Ve[netiae]. Rem. Pu[blicam]. Gubernante. Pontificatus Iulii. II. anno VI.

Both colophons include mention of 15-year privilege

Author's name at head of dedication

Edited by Marcus Antonius Capella

An Italian version of Piero della Francesca's "De quinque corporibus regularibus."

Two issues: the second with verse on leaf A1 verso

Title page, A1 recto; Daniel Caietanus. Epigramma, A1 verso; Luca Pacioli. Sonetto, A1 verso; Verse, A1 verso; Lucas Patiolus. [Dedicatory letter addressed to] Petrus Soderinus, in Latin, dated Venice, 9 June 1509, A2 recto; Daniel Caietanus. [Dedicatory letter addressed to] Andreas Mocenicus, in Latin, dated Padua, 9 May 1509, A2 verso; list of names for the geometrical figures, in Latin and Greek, A3 recto/verso; List of contents, dedicated to Ludovico Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan, A4 recto-A6 verso; Luca Pacioli. Divina Proportione, Prima parte, b1 recto-E9 verso; colophon, E9 verso; E10 blank; Piero della Francesca. Libellus in tres partiales tractatus divisus quinque corporum, translated from Latin into Italian by Luca Pacioli, a1 recto-c10 recto; colophon, c10 recto; woodcut plates, [1]₁ recto-[11]₇ recto.

Signatures: A⁶ b⁸ C-D⁸ E¹⁰ a⁸ ²b⁸ c¹⁰; [1-11⁸] (E10 and [11]₈=blank); signatures for unsigned woodcut series derived from Adams

Royal half-sheet quarto; title printed in red and black; woodcut initials; geometric marginal diagrams

87 woodcuts after the text

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy E.191.56 FOLIO bound in brown goatskin by Charles Meunier. Bookplate of the BPL Bowditch Collection. Leaves E10 and [11]₈ (both blank) wanting. Woodcuts bound in same order as described by Mortimer: geometric human head after Piero della Francesca, 23 woodcuts of roman capital letterforms (with O twice and Z omitted), three architectural drawings (preceded in this copy by a single early/contemporary blank), 59 woodcuts of solid and open geometric forms, genealogical tree of proportions and propportionality. Leaf dimensions: 294 x 195 mm. Purchased in Jan., 1948 from William Schab.

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy E.191.56 FOLIO with verses on A1 verso.

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